A federal judge has determined Rudy Giuliani forfeits the defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers against him, a decision that could lead to significant penalties for the former Donald Trump attorney.
Giuliani lost the case because he struggled to maintain access to his electronic records, partly because of the cost, and couldn’t adequately respond to subpoenas from attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss as the case moved forward.
Note, that it’s a forfeit due to not complying with his requirements rather than a ruling of fact for those who for whatever reason feel the need to defend Rudy’s actions on a factual basis. Still, this bodes poorly for his many other legal actions. Granted he could be saving money by blowing this one off as the others are almost certainly going to cause him bigger bucks, but if I was one of his co-conspirators, I’d take it as evidence that I should throw him a financial lifeline before he snaps.
Sure he’d be a lousy witness for the prosecution at this point as his credibility is crap, but I’d still want to minimize the risks.
Kicking the poor man while he’s down (sigh). WTF Rudy? Was it the Alcohol? Power as a drug? Mental illness?
Not just Rudy, I suspect a fair number of, “win at all costs” Republicants went down the toilet drinking Russian piss. Questions to Barr about political influence come to mind as this was during the campaign - Barr as AG.
Somewhere (I think either CNN or NPR) someone suggested that the reason Giuliani didn’t comply with the discovery request was that whatever is in those documents is so damaging that he’s better off losing by default.
Also he has so many judgements against him that even without this suit he’s going to be near destitute so it isn’t as if adding one more to the pile is going to make any difference.
To be fair, he didn’t do that. He was pulling his pants off because he thought he was alone with only a young female reporter around. Sacha burst into the room and Rudy hastily pulled his pants back on. He had no idea Sacha or anyone else but the young woman was nearby.
He’s a disgusting pervert who preys on young women, but he at least has the sense to do it when those young women are vulnerable, as your sensible sexual predator is likely to do.
As I recall, he was getting ready to pull his pants off. I completely agree with the rest of your post, especially the disgusting pervert part.
I heard an interview with Cassidy Hutchinson yesterday (former Mark Meadows aid, and victim of Rudy’s gross misconduct on January 6th 2021). She shares this view.
That’s what I meant; he was unfastening his pants while in the process of removing them, and hastily closed them back up. I wonder how far it would have gone if Sacha hadn’t barged in when he did.
Yes it was on camera, that’s why it was in the film. I don’t know if it was hidden. Maybe the camera was visible but he didn’t know it was recording. I have no idea.
To be fair, the man is now known to be in a state of near constant inebriation.
He may not have been in any mental state to realize he was in a hotel room, much less that there was a camera. I’m not really even joking about that. Given his propensity for alcohol, I have serious doubts as to his typical level of awareness. That does not, of course, excuse his behavior but does go a long way to explaining many of the otherwise inexplicable things he’s done the last several years
Oh, I’d wager that if Young Girl had whispered “Tell me again about 9/11 and how you were America’s Mayor…”, he’d have been capable of spouting a couple of cogent paragraphs.